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Friday, 26 October 2018

UNESCO Peace Chair and prominent Indian academician & columnist,
Prof M D Nalapat, in his address to the students at the Round Square
Youth Parliament, spoke on the role of media as an organ that cleanses
and purifies the government system. He spoke about minimum government
and maximum governance for growth and development and how today’s youth
and technology are the key factors towards a brighter future
Currently Editorial Director of The Sunday Guardian and Itv network
(India),[1] Vice-Chair of Manipal University's Advanced Research Group,
and Director of the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University. He
has been the Coordinating Editor of the Times of India and editor of the
Mathrubhumi. He is the son of renowned author and poet Kamala Das.
The inaugural Inventure Academy Round Square Youth Parliament - Our
World, Our Voice was launched with Prof M V Rajeev Gowda and Dr Sumer
Singh as Guests of Honor at the opening ceremony. This five day event
from 15 to 19 August 2018 was held at Inventure’s campus on
Whitefield-Sarjapur Road, Bangalore.
The conference was conceptualised by Inventure Academy to equip children
with the Right to Participate (guaranteed by Article 12 of the UNCRC)
in the world that they are inheriting and to enable them to be positive
change makers. This was achieved by exposing our youth to different
perspectives, dialogues between nations and the process of
decision-making through a blended platform of the Model United Nations
(MUN) and Model Parliament (MP). The conference exposed students to the
process of how laws are created and implemented through the interplay
between various stakeholders, including international organisations such
as the United Nations, National Parliament, Media and Civil Society.
This helps to demonstrate how citizens (including children) can have an
impact and be a part of the solution.
The focus of this Parliament was our children contributing to the
achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4
by 2030 - “Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and
lifelong learning for all”. The specific sub areas of focus included the
quality of education and funding, child and cyber safety, and the
impact of conflict on the healthy development of youth.

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About Prof. M. D. Nalapat

Prof. Madhav Das Nalapat (aka MD Nalapat or Monu Nalapat), holds the UNESCO Peace Chair and is Director of the Department of Geopolitics at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. The former Coordinating Editor of the Times of India, he writes extensively on security, policy and international affairs. Prof. Nalapat has no formal role in government, although he is said to influence policy at the highest levels. @MD_Nalapat

MD Nalapat's anthology 'Indutva' (1999)

In 1999, Har-Anand published Indutva an anthology of MD Nalapat's 1990s columns from the Times of India. The individual columns are posted here, in 1998 and 1999 of the blog archive, though the exact dates of publication are uncertain.